A section of Highway 175 will be closed for 12 hours Monday so crews can remove a semi-truck that rolled down an embankment Thursday, the California Department of Transportation reported.

According to Caltrans, a “full closure of Hwy. 175 from 5.6 miles east of Highway 101 to Mathews Road in Lake County” will occur Monday, Oct. 15, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.,” and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 17.

The closure is needed, Caltrans reports, “for recovery of a semi-truck that went over the embankment. which will require special heavy equipment.” Caltrans adds that the truck and trailer will be removed Monday, and the load of plywood it was hauling will be removed Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to the California Highway Patrol, a Lodi man named Christopher Cortez was driving a Peterbilt truck and trailer with a load of plywood westbound on Hwy. 175 around 1:30 p.m. Oct. 11 near a construction zone at mile marker 8.86.

According to the CHP, there were several signs warning Cortez that vehicles longer than 39-feet were prohibited, but “he failed to obey them (and) due to the overall length of his vehicle, Cortez was unable to negotiate the turn in the roadway, causing the vehicle to roll down the embankment.”

Cortez, the solo occupant of the vehicle, was not injured. The CHP is investigating the collision, but neither alcohol nor drugs are believed to have been contributing factors.